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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

Barbara Kingsolver

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.
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Government Treats Way
The loudest sound on earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.
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Earth Men Sound
This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.
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Believe Country States Thinking United
We’re animals. We’re born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Animal Born Mammals
There’s always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.
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Always Body Fenceline Stories
Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.
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Boys Eden Girl
If you never stepped on anybody’s toes, you never been for a walk.
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Tact Toes Walks
Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!
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Appreciate Family Stranger
It’s the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
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Get One Thing Over
Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it’s not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.
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Dream Grows Out Right Separate
A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.
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Doe Dog Thinking
If you want sweet dreams, you’ve got to live a sweet life.
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Dream Sweet Want
But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.
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Job Mother Running
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can’t even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Fountain People Thinking Want
In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.
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Life Thing World Wrong
I concentrate on character, theme, language, structure, voice. It actually surprises me that no matter what I write, people declare it “intently political.” I’m just writing about the world I know, as it is. Wounds and griefs included.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER

Character Grief Writing

I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

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I never think that anything I’m writing is bluntly political in any way. I’m not going for commentary.

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